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Vineyard Maintenance

Wes Hagen offers the basic foundations and theories of vineyard maintenance, from pruning to combating diseases and pests.

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Vineyard Winter Maintenance: Tips from the Pros

All done using their energy to grow shoots, grapes and leaves, vines in the winter begin storing water prior to the first frost and then go

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Vegetative Growth Cycle in the Vineyard

Spring and summer is a time of great growth for your vines. Be prepared this year, as Wes Hagen shares what you need to be doing during your

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Summer Care in the Vineyard

The summer is a critical time in the home vineyard. Wes Hagen shares the physiological needs of mature vines in the summer and lays out a sc

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Site Planning and Prep: Designing a modern backyard vineyard

For anyone who plans on creating a small-to-moderate-sized backyard vineyard, this column should be mandatory reading. Because the best advi

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Spring Vineyard Care: Tips from the Pros

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Devise a Home Vineyard Spray Program

To grow the best fruit, vintners need to protect their precious crops from disease and pests. Doing so requires an active spray program. Get

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Spring In The Vineyard

Read up on vineyard work in the spring, from choosing a rootstock to flowering.

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Starting Your Own Vineyard

Want to start your own vineyard? We’ll review getting started, from buying land to planning your annual growing calendar.

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Buying Vineyard Land

What to know when looking to purchase land with the intent of planting a vineyard.

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A Year in a Home Vineyard

From winter dormancy all the way through fall harvest, follow the annual lifecycle of a grapevine in this author’s New York home vineyard.

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Irrigating the Home Vineyard

Explore the three most common methods of irrigating a home vineyard, some of the more common myths surrounding watering grapevines, and if y

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A Year in the Life of a Wine: Part I Starting in the vineyard

In the first installment of our new year-long series of how a homemade wine is made from homegrown grapes, we check in with the grapes at a

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Vineyard Trellis and Training

How do we focus on what’s important in a trellis and training system? Let’s look at the basic requirements and select a trellis system that

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Vineyard Consultants: Backyard Vines

The subject of this issue’s “Backyard Vines” is determining when we can solve an issue in the vineyard ourselves, and when it makes se

(Another) Year in the Vineyard Wine Blog, Week #29 by Wes Hagen, Clos Pepe

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(Another) Year in the Vineyard Wine Blog, Week #24 with Wes Hagen, Clos Pepe

Summer Arrives Before It’s Over:  Sparkling Harvest Soon!

(Another) Year in the Vineyard Wine Blog, Week #23 with Wes Hagen, Clos Pepe

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Another Year in the Vineyard, Week 19 with Wes Hagen, Clos Pepe

This morning the vineyard’s technology level has been thrown back to 1990, and we’re feeling the sting.

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Planning the Vineyard Work Load

Managing labor in the vineyard can be as easy as scheduling one morning a weekend during the growing season for checking on the vineyard and

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Plan Your First Vineyard

Detailed steps every home viticulturist should take before planting their first vineyard.

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My Backyard Vineyard

I take one last, inclusive look at the “backyard” of the home in Chicago Park, California. I see one-and-a-half acres of fertile land th

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Dornfelder: Germany’s full-bodied purple grape

Germany is most known for their white wines, though they also produce fine red wines. Dornfelder is a Vitis vinifera variety with a full bod

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Vintage Postmortem

With harvest behind us and our wines safely fermenting or in bulk storage, it’s time to reflect on the past year’s struggles and triumph

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Harvest and Beyond

As harvest nears, we discuss everything from ripeness based on wine style to harvest and vineyard dormancy.